A Disbelief of Flesh

Maria-Sophia Christodoulou

• Publisher: Out Spoken Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781739902131
• eBook ISBN: 9781739902162
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

A Disbelief of Flesh holds a grief not just for the loved and lost, but one that comes with depth of identity, of culture, of faith.

Christodoulou's affection for her Cypriot heritage is channelled through her grandmother and grandfather, through food and the walls of home, and through her mother, whom she embodies sometimes, and who becomes a worshipped figure. We learn here of a tension that exists where pain meets catharsis, making possible a transformative connection with the roots of the self. This debut is a lesson in nuanced and poignant song.

Maria-Sophia Christodoulou is a British born Cypriot working as an English Secondary School Teacher, Mental Health Advocate and Poet in London. She graduated from Goldsmiths with a BA and MA in English with Creative Writing, and Creative and Life Writing. She has since been published in Nascent by Out-Spoken Press, Away with Word s by Toothgrinder Press and in Ink Sweat & Tears. Her work explores her dual-nationality within her identity and her search for acceptance within a feeling and state of 'in-betweenness'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• End
• Runaway Mother/Land
• Broken Country
• The Last Woman in the Village
• Unfaithful Altars
• Pappou’s Hymn
• Home Cremation
• Somewhere in the Hiatus
• Grief/ing
• Phantom Pain
• Happy Place
• New Home Ritual
• Self-Love Canticle
• A Lesson in Moving On
• Plum Girl
• Acknowledgements
• Other titles by Out-Spoken Press